Google’s Trusted Copyright Removal Program (TCRP) is made up of a very small group of anti-piracy specialists – currently just a few hundred companies have this label.

The TCRP allows rights-holders to improve the effectiveness of PDN take downs by giving us a privileged window of dialogue with Google. 

This partnership, based on mutual trust is very important to us; indeed, admission to this program is based on strict very criteria; only companies filing large volumes of requests, but more importantly, companies with a history of submitting accurate and precise DMCA notices, being selected. 

This last criterion is particularly verified by Google. 

Indeed, many inaccurate DMCA reports are sent every day by rights holders as well as by anti-piracy companies – either by negligence or by real dishonesty – especially as an anti-competitive tool – so Google has to make sure that the DMCA notices issued by their partners are sent for the right reasons. 

Google TCRP provides its members with a tool that significantly speeds up anti-piracy work. It allows for large volumes of links to be submitted with each notification sent to Google, which is not possible with the traditional take down request form. 

The tool also allows for better tracking of requests with history and categorization features, which again, the regular form does not allow.